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31 May 2014

America Has Been At War My Whole Life

The mainstream
media is now heralding the president for announcing that, finally,
the war in Afghanistan is going to come to an end.

On December
31, 2016, the last American troop is scheduled to leave, officially
putting a period on the last sentence about the United States’
longest war in the history books. The whole move seems arbitrary at
best. What magical thing is going to happen that day — the 5,565th
day of that war — that actually changes anything from the day
before or the day before that?

What has made it worth the $4
billion a year spent and the thousands of lives lost?
Well, at
least Obama gets to go down in history as the president who
officially ended both the war in Iraq and the war in
Afghanistan.
Official announcement or not, there’s really no
end in sight for America’s wars. The day after he said that, Obama
was giving a speech before graduating West Point cadets which sealed
the deal:

The nation, he said, had, in effect, traded Al Qaeda in
Afghanistan for a more diffuse threat from extremists in Syria,
Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Mali, and other countries. (source)

Translation: one war has created an
excuse for more future wars.
He calls it “might doing
right”. Sounds like another stupid bumper slogan. Cementing the
point, Obama went on in the speech to push Congress to form a $5
billion “Counterterrorism
Partnerships Fund” with a goal of “helping endangered nations
deal with their own terrorist groups,” by training fighters
specifically in Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey (all neighbors of
Syria).
The war on terror, you see, is never meant to end. It
was designed that way.

But even before America had such a nebulous new enemy —
“terror” — we have long been at some type of conflict or war. I
was born in 1980. Scanning the list, I see that in my 34 years, there
isn’t a single year I’ve been alive that my country hasn’t been
fighting someone, somewhere.

(This is just what’s on record
and obviously does not include all the countries where the CIA is
covertly involved.)

The year before I was born, the U.S.
fought alongside the Mujaheddin against the Soviet Union in
Afghanistan as part of the Cold War. That did not officially end
until 1989.

In the meantime, America fought in the Lebanese
Civil War from 1982-1984, a conflict that resulted in 120,000 deaths
and a mass exodus from the country of nearly one million people.

The
U.S. led the invasion of Grenada in Operation Urgent Fury in
1983.

In 1986, the U.S. bombed Libya in Operation El Dorado
Canyon, supposedly in response to the April 1986 bombing of La Belle
discothèque in West Berlin. Turns out, however, we had already
simulated the attack mission in October the year prior during
Operation Ghost Rider.

1987 began a series of missions America
ran as part of the Iran-Iraq war.

The United States invaded
Panama in 1989.

The Persian Gulf War, codenamed Operation
Desert Storm, began in 1990. Even though it ended in 1991, we
instituted two no-fly zones at the end of that war which were still
in place by the time of the United States-led coalition invasion of
Iraq in 2003.

The U.S. officially became involved in the
Somali Civil War in Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1994. The U.S.
participated in the Somali Civil War again from 2006 to 2009 as
well.

The U.S. also fought in the Bosnian War,
1993-1995.

Operation Uphold Democracy saw the U.S. intervene
in Haiti in 1994.

In 1998′s Operation Infinite Reach,
America bombed terrorist bases in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical
factory in Sudan, which the history books say was in retaliation for
bombings on American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.

The U.S.
took part in the Kosovo War in 1998 as well.

America
fought the Iraq War from 2003 to 2011 (a war that then-President
George W. Bush and his administration only had to lie
about 935 times following 9/11 to finally get us involved in).
America also participated in the Second Liberian Civil War in
2003.

We intervened in Libya in 2011 to help overthrow the
Gaddafi government, a move which ended in him being lynched in the
street.

The Afghanistan War, officially part of the “War on
Terror” which began in 2001 following 9/11, is ongoing.

We’re
also currently drone bombing Pakistan, where we’ve been at war
against terror since 2004. The same with Yemen since 2010. Reports
show that, at least in Pakistan where Obama has authorized some 200
drone strikes, most of them are carried out on houses,
and many innocent civilians have been killed. A list of children
killed in these countries by American drones can be found here.

Also
ongoing is Operation Enduring Freedom in which the U.S. is reportedly
targeting Communist insurgents in the Philippines and militant
Islamism and piracy in Africa.

In addition, remember that
whole Kony
2012 propaganda campaign regarding missing small-time Ugandan
warlord Joseph Kony of the LRA who was supposedly responsible for
30,000 missing children in Uganda (though that was later debunked)?
The U.S. has predictably used that as a pretext to invade Africa as
well, where we’ve been involved in ever since.

In fact, the
only break in war or conflict in recent years that America has seen
on record was between 1975 after the Cambodian Civil War ended and
1979 when the Soviet war in Afghanistan began.

Some of the
many conflicts listed here I already knew about, obviously, but
others I only (sadly) just learned of. And I didn’t even list
everything.

Under the guise
of the War on Terror, we’re in so many places right now and
have been for so long, it’s hard to keep it all straight. Many
people have forgotten. Out of sight, out of mind I guess.

The
United States operates and/or controls at least 700 bases and
military installations worldwide in 63 countries on top of the 6,000
military bases and warehouses located within the U.S. alone. We have
more than a quarter of a million military personnel deployed across
the globe in more than 150 countries.

We are at permanent
war. It seems there is no end to American participation in
conflict on the global stage in sight.

And for the same reason
that stocks in defense contractors like Raytheon and others hit
record highs in the days after the possibility of war with Syria
hit the media last year, there won’t be.

It’s a
well-known fact that World War II confirmed the ways which war can be
used to control economies — not just that of America, but of the
world.

According to “Silent
Weapons for Quiet Wars,” economies obey the same laws as
electricity. Human lives continue to be measured in dollars by the
Powers that Shouldn’t Be. “The electric spark generated when
opening a switch connected to an active inductor is mathematically
analogous to the initiation of a war,” it reads. “The
economy has been transformed into a guided missile on target.

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